winter vision

[FAT MATT]

Expect to do quite a few miles this winter,
1. Whats the best bulb option (outside the 200 quid hid upgrade).
2. How about visors for rain/ night. Am using a fog city hyper opit which doesnt mist but the colour change is to much for night.
a. Are yellow visors any good in the rain?
b. Do they hamper night time riding?
c. Where can i get them for my Corsair?

Got all the warm kit, just need to be able to see where im going!

[dern]

FAT MATT said:

1. Whats the best bulb option (outside the 200 quid hid upgrade). 2. How about visors for rain/ night. Am using a fog city hyper opit which doesnt mist but the colour change is to much for night.

I expect the headlight answer will be specific to your bike and probably revolve around the design of the headlight unit so while you'll be able to make it a bit brighter with better bulbs and so on I can't believe it'll make that much difference. I have standard bulbs in my blade and can see for miles on high beam.

You can get clear fog city inserts, dunno about the yellow one. I stopped using inserts because although they keep the visor clear they don't help if you wear glasses and I found they scratched easily and don't stay that clean and cleaning them frquently seems to scratch them further although that might just be me cleaning them with the nearest thing to hand such as kecks, hanky, etc

The best thing to do with rain is keep your visor uber-clean and the the beads of water will just roll off when you turn your head. Some people use rain-x on their visors, I haven't personally but the effects are incredible on a car windscreen.

Mark

[Vitesse39]

Did the rain racer stuff on my clear visor a while back, works a treat.

As for bulbs my experience is it's down to bike light design - the lights on the ZXR400H2 were crap so I did a home mod to shove in 55/60 watt bulbs instead of the standard 35/60's, but on the ZXR750L1 that I have now they are great.